Jonathon Steinbeck
CEO/Founder at China Plains Consulting
- Role
- CEO Founder at China Plains Sourcing
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jonathon Steinbeck
My Goal: Develop trade opportunities for companies that want to source or sell products…
Experience
CEO Founder
May 2009 — Present · Austin, TX, US
I founded China Plains in May of 2009. Our aim is to source products in China for US companies, as well as market US products in China. Using contacts I developed from living and working in China for several years, and fluency Mandarin Chinese, I developed a large network of established and reliable factory suppliers. I then reached out to US companies, and found a niche among manufacturers of products with a large liability, such as medical devices, aeronautics components, and industrial machinery components. I was able to win business based on being able to verify quality suppliers that supplied reliable components at a cheaper price than competitors. I dealt with a wide array of products at China Plains including: custom plastic injection parts, custom metal stamped parts, cable assemblies, and PCBs. I also handled finished products, including aqueous ozone machines, vending machines, medical equipment, and sports equipment. Many items included being literate in 3D software and 2D cad drawings, as well as a familiarity with materials and their characteristics, such as resistance to flammability and IZOD ratings. We also worked with customers’ engineering and sales teams to finalize product concepts, add features that would drive sales, and ensure factories complied with the customizations of the products. I was able to utilize the engineering resources of factories to optimize designs for our customers. In delivering products sourced from international destinations, I had broad and in-depth experience in customs clearance for both the US and China, ocean transportation, consolidated loads, rail and intermodal, airfreight, trucking, warehousing, drop-ship and other distribution systems. I cemented customer and supplier relationships by navigating the different executive leadership styles of US and Chinese companies. China Plains also set up business lines to export US beef and other products to China markets. In 2017, China Plains revenues exceeded of $1mm.
Education
Beijing Language and Culture University
Certificate of Completion, Mandarin Language
2001 — 2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelors, Political Science ; Chinese Language & Studies
1997 — 2004
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Masters, Business Administration (MBA)
2006 — 2008
Skills
- Product Development
- International Economics
- International Trade
- Word
- Supply Chain Management
- Ocean Transportation
- Public Speaking
- Cantonese Chinese Language
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- International Business
- Purchasing
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Word
- Mandarin
- Business Development
- Mandarin Chinese Language
- Supply Chain
- Negotiation
- Excel
- Railroad Transportation
- Trucking
- Recycling
- Customs Regulations
- Logistics
- Training
- New Business Development
- Procurement
- Scrap Plastic
- Transportation
- Management
- Manufacturing
- Strategic Planning
- Microsoft Excel
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